Office Depot

[Markk]

Kudos for the stone wall the Depot gave us along Peoria south of 15th.

That is sarcasm.

[Townsend]

Office Depot To Close 400 Stores

http://kwgs.com/post/office-depot-close-400-stores

The company announced on Tuesday that it is shutting more than a third of its domestic locations. The company posted a loss for the first quarter and hopes to turn a profit by next year.

[SXSW]

If the one at 15th & Lewis did close, it would be the perfect size for conversion to a Trader Joe's.   

[AquaMan]

I'm feeling giddy. This is one awful company. Too bad for the lower level employees but they can find jobs at that payscale anywhere and take solace that they no longer enable evil management.

Horribly designed building with an empty parking lot on its backside, extremely small receiving area and cinderblock construction. I hope someone with an appreciation of the desirability of the neighborhood moves in. Not like the Allstate insurance guy across 15th that cut out two huge trees so he could highlight his poor taste and huge parking lot. Schmuck.

[nathanm]

Not like the Allstate insurance guy across 15th that cut out two huge trees so he could highlight his poor taste and huge parking lot. Schmuck.

State Farm. And the tree between his drive and Walgreens was a hazard to traffic.

[sgrizzle]

Apparently buying out your failing competition doesn't make for success.

Staples is killing it with their online orders and free delivery to business programs.

[Conan71]

I'm feeling giddy. This is one awful company. Too bad for the lower level employees but they can find jobs at that payscale anywhere and take solace that they no longer enable evil management.

Horribly designed building with an empty parking lot on its backside, extremely small receiving area and cinderblock construction. I hope someone with an appreciation of the desirability of the neighborhood moves in. Not like the Allstate insurance guy across 15th that cut out two huge trees so he could highlight his poor taste and huge parking lot. Schmuck.

Wasn't that a re-purposed Homeland/Safeway rather than a complete knock-down and re-build?

That's the incongruity of that intersection: The Lowes/Delman development would have been neat re-purposed rather than a knockdown for Walgreens, AT&T/Blockbuster, et. al.  Where the old Safeway architecture was ripe for a complete tear down.  Tsk Tsk.

[AquaMan]

State Farm. And the tree between his drive and Walgreens was a hazard to traffic.

Some hazard. Drove around it for forty years without a problem and never saw anaccident in the three years I worked across the street from it.

[AquaMan]

Wasn't that a re-purposed Homeland/Safeway rather than a complete knock-down and re-build?

That's the incongruity of that intersection: The Lowes/Delman development would have been neat re-purposed rather than a knockdown for Walgreens, AT&T/Blockbuster, et. al.  Where the old Safeway architecture was ripe for a complete tear down.  Tsk Tsk.

Nah. It was a knockdown. I opened the store. Designed by the manager. They had much successwhen they followed the model of using old Safeway's to keep overhead low and prices too. Then they got the suburban fever and brought it into an old area.

[BKDotCom]

Staples is killing it with their online orders and free delivery to business programs.

How quickly we forget

March 2014:  Staples to shutter up to 225 stores

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/03/07/staples-close-north-america-stores/LpoUGvzIm5uFAmFNFpm7jM/story.html

[swake]

Lots of retail space opening up in this country.

Dead and Dying:
Music stores, toy stores, electronic stores, book stores, video rental stores, newspapers, and now office supply stores.

Next up. Grocery Stores. Will Amazon Fresh and Google Shopping Express kill grocery stores, at least as we know them today? WWWMD?

What will Wal-Mart do?

[Townsend]

What will Wal-Mart do?

Litter suburbs with empty unusable 102,000 square foot shells.

Is Lazer tag still a thing?

[rebound]

Next up. Grocery Stores. Will Amazon Fresh and Google Shopping Express kill grocery stores, at least as we know them today? WWWMD?
What will Wal-Mart do?

I was part of a Omni-Channel Retail panel a week ago in Atlanta at Georgia Tech, and several of the questions related to Grocery and whether the Amazon and Google grocery ventures (and in general, home grocery delivery) will pan out.  It has already basically failed once about 15 years ago, and the general consensus among the panel was that it will be a mixed bag (pun intended) this time.  Unlike Clothing and other consumer goods, Grocery margins are notoriously slim.  Adding a delivery cost (whether charged to the customer or absorbed in operations) is a tough long-term hurdle in Grocery.  But in densely populated areas the combination of high volumes and much smaller distribution areas will probably allow for success.  The greater travel distances and lower density (and lifestyle differences) of suburban and rural customers will make this a much harder profit model in those areas.  

[Ibanez]

Home grocery deliver is something I just can't see myself ever using. Well maybe when I get into my 80's, but now? No thanks. I prefer to go to the store myself and pick out my veggies and meat. No way in hell I would leave that up to someone else.

[Townsend]

Home grocery deliver is something I just can't see myself ever using. Well maybe when I get into my 80's, but now? No thanks. I prefer to go to the store myself and pick out my veggies and meat. No way in hell I would leave that up to someone else.

Gave that 3 shots at Reasor's.  No normal person would've picked the produce they decided was fit to bag up for me.  The frozen food was left out to thaw.

I can see it working for the rest of the groceries but not for produce, meat, or frozen foods...

so if you eat all dried goods and cans...you're good to go.

Wine, beer and bourbon...that's the delivery we need here.